Can't contour? Makeup trick to apply bronzer, blush, highlighter at once (2025)

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With so much debate as to the proper placement of makeup products onto the skin, a new hack simplifying the entire process is going viral as beauty lovers look for easy-to-follow tips and tricks.

In fact, the new viral hack to transform the way you do your makeup uses a surprising tool to guarantee perfect placement of your blush, bronzer and highlighter every time: your fingers.

Shared by makeup artist Frouzan M, known on social media as @froartistry, the makeup hack "you need to try" has received over 2.1 million views on her TikTok page.

Taking her index, middle and ring fingers and laying them against her skin between the cheekbone and eye socket, the placement of her finger tips serve as perfect markers as to where to apply her liquid products.

Placing a dark contour shade at the end of her ring finger, she continued to apply the product and said: "The middle one, we are going to use our blush, and the last finger here is where the highlight goes."

After placing her product in line with her fingers, she then took a dense brush and began brushing the product upward, blending toward her ears.

Starting by working in the darkest shade into the skin, she took the same brush slightly harder to blend out the pink blush and shimmery golden highlight that were placed higher on the face.

Blending the product upward and outward helps to create a more lifted look, and helps to prevent product finding itself in the wrong place.

The easy hack resulted in an effortlessly sculpted and glowing look that would have others believe you spent hours on your makeup. You can easily adapt the products used to feed into different trends, such as 'pomegranate girl' makeup, which is taking over the beauty scene.

What Do the Comments Say

The video's millions of viewers couldn't believe how simple her hack made makeup application, as one wrote, "OK OK OK .... Thank you! I've been struggling for so long with that contouring thing."

"Omg [Oh my God] yesss thank you!!!" added a second. "I'm learning makeup now and definitely will try this."

"I love this type of video I learn a lot," posted a third.

The video made it look so easy that the poster even convinced some viewers to pick up their makeup brush and give it a go for themselves. One user commented: "I'm not a makeup girlie but I now just might be."

"WOW." wrote another. "Literally life changing."

Newsweek reached out to Frouzan for comment via Instagram.